Word: quos
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Harvard's own Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law Paul C. Weiler reveals the injustice of the status quo through another qualification conundrum: Under current law, a child born in a foreign country who immigrated to the U.S. with parents soon after birth and then became a U.S. citizen could not run for President...
...yourself and the other members of the Review Committee is a report that we had anxiously anticipated in the hope of constructive proposals for reform. After reading the Paper, however, we must confess our disappointment with the Committee's adherence to and defense of a broken status quo, as well as our disturbance at the patronizing attitude with which students' opinions about the Core have been dismissed...
...particularly the Tamraz tale, makes it harder for anyone in Washington to sustain the Big Lie on which the whole campaign-finance racket rests. The Big Lie works like this: over and over, despite each piece of evidence to the contrary, politicians insist there's no quid pro quo. People can give money to campaigns or parties, the pols say, but the donors get nothing from the government in return. Repeating this fiction obscures the obvious point: why would hardheaded businessmen give hundreds of millions of dollars--$262 million, the Federal Election Commission reported last week--without the prospect...
...story of Roger Tamraz, a U.S. citizen of Lebanese descent born in Cairo, as told in the Wall Street Journal last week, suggests just how far Democratic officials were willing to go to hide a quid and deliver a quo. Tamraz wanted to build his billion-dollar oil pipeline through the warring nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He sought U.S. blessing for the project to help secure financing, and with the aid of some State Department officials, arranged a meeting in June 1995 with NSC Central Asia specialist Sheila Heslin. She was not impressed with his pitch and didn...
...been extended to women too poor, too young, or too dysfunctional to care for a child--or obtain a timely abortion. When Clinton asks for a "health of mother" exception in the current bill, without specifying physical health, he is saying there should be no change in the status quo...